Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-22
wo,Id To-Day Full of Testimony
~ i he Silent Influence of the
Christian Religion.
20 Convert the Soul, TO Give
j. : ,-t n Trouble and 80 Afford
W. c,n,sure in The Last Hour.
..s ~ ,he Best Man and Women
q I ,,s,ns aud D'sd-rhou snds Of
L.''- fy,-ncsses Attest.


..'- rs witt Tslmage, D. D, to-
~ TX, Is from the lon verse Of
y -. aw- are witnesses" Follow
sermon n full:
5srs q George Stephenson, the
,,- q the locomotive engine, the
-. ~ vsi Couc.usiycly that rail-
ss1..-. never De driven by steam
y, 80 ices fully and without peril, but
RVS. 80 .rargss trains from LiVerpOCI
i 49,. - and from Edinburgh to
- = 1ogr made eli the nation wit
49, splendid achievement. Ma
.,, e. z-s 1avlgstors proved conclu-
-. - ne 2 steam T could never CLIO s
'5 ,'.,r,c ocean, but no sooner mad
7. ,..--rasstl.lv proved me impossiJi.i,y
Misunderstanding than the work was
en- H. passengers on the CunGTd,
.- -. imam. and the National, and he
~ ~.s- lines are witnesses.
~. went up 3 gufaw OF wise
q. Professor Morse's
-...tar to make the lightning
..-sg urraad boy, ard it Was
- r-r u-iyt,y hat the thing could
800 sare. out now Gil the news Of
-. r-.r.a. by Associated Press put
--,r-a srGs every morning Gld night,
made 81. nations witnesses.
5-99 me ..ne ot Christ Il was proved
-.rsfvg.7 taEs it was impossible for
n rs,e from The dead. 1t was shown
-,,sr,y taa- when man was dead, he
=, ;psl. bll the heart and the liver and
=. mo, having ceased 70 perform their
4.as. tle limbs would be rigid beyond
95vtr Of friction or arousal. They
lived j. to be 81 absolute absurdity
.,..-a dead Christ should ever get up
1c.n8. sooner had they proved
=. t1qn tie dead Christ arose, and the
1..r.es 1eol MIN, heard MS voice, and
,;-i with him, and they TOOK the Wit
j, stand To prove that to be true which
r,sgacres ii inc day had proved 20 be
-,oss1.e. the record Of the experiment
,-tct tie testimony il in the text: Him
r-Gg5 sed from the dead, whereof
" s:e Witnesses
now, let me play the skeptic for mo-
.-. "Tlere is no God" says the
.-rgc, "ior asye never seen him with
7 raTsie5l eyesight Your Bible is g
3.s Of contradictions. There never was
s-.a.e Lazarus was not raised from
he LEAD, gCd Tie water was never turpeG
lit VINE. I0ur religion is an imposition
lie creeuaty of the ages" There is
& sga3 man moving IN that pew as
zggs1 be would Ike 10 respond. Here
rg -a1druls IF people with faces little
.-slct 81 these announcements, end ell
though ,li, house there is d
a5-5ssa5 feeling which would like &c
rss5 cd. in 7half Of the truth OF our
.o.0Cs Christianity, as in the days Of
L. ttEt, crying ont
we ALE WITNESSES
The fact is, l5at If this world is ever
.,gsl: 90 God It viii rot be through ar
.-- r., 1G. through testimony. You
-.--. COVER lle waole eaTtn with apollo
,si.. -tia8ity and learned treatises
t.isr u religion you would not
.-7e-. soul. ctures on the harmony
@T-el science =ld religion sre beauti-
Iec-a. ~C.p.IDe, but hSve neve
@15- q soul, sa. never viii save soul.
-..5 uan 9t the world and : man OF the
.-1,c1 4-ai-.. aec5 ether, and the man
1.-THE word w. in sil probability get
e .-au.1 .11re are thousand
---s = .l- On that seem illogical
.-g 0--, alG always VIII seem ilOgi-
-weeon i t1i. conflict IS faith,
q os's ia.ll, not metaphysics; faith,
u PToiu7ll. faith, not scholastic eX-
'-,2..l-. E-- then, in orGer to have
a.1. We must have testimony, snd If 500
-.-' 81 men, or 500, OG0 men, or
-. Gp and tell me that they
Eve FL. the le,glon CT Jesus Christ s
!' alluiort, { help, an inspiration,
Z -51li e. fair minded man 10 accept
-.1 ,es-ug0y. | want Just now to put
+. you t4ree PROPOSITIONS, the truth
wien think this audience will attest
ia 9'erwle ming UnaGimity.
Ing -rst proposition is: We are Wit
,,;s7s inst The religion Of Christ is able
,oLyer. g soul.
-le Uosps ay have bad hard time
,ol 1erus, we msv have fought it back,
y. VIZ We're rsnQu.sled. You say con,
a>1n Is only
AN IMAGINARY THING.
: 2l0W better we are Witnesses
,-'-5 never was so great change in oul
-.-.' int life On any other subject as or
- Ie1p.e laughed st the missionaries
4slsgs,car because they preached ten
'-.' "A1oG- one convert; but there are
converts in Madagascar to-day.
EYE -aa-aej al Or. Judson, the Bap.
- missionary, because he kept or
- ..A--l1g in Burmsh five years
...--1t q single convert; but there arr
-F thousand BRptists in Burmsh to
Ie09.e laughed ct DR.. Morrison, in
80 lot Preaching there seven years
"-,e- s single conversion; but there
-'.5e1 thousand Christians in China
,s -ag' People laugh st the mission
-. ~ i3r Preaching a. Tahiti for tifteer
-, - VINO i single conversion, and s.
I, .-.sSIonaries tor preaching in Benga
~. Ss1tnteen years without single con-
~ ,.Sy1 yet n al those lands there are
o,,--lls q Christians to-day.
way so 50 f3r TO find evidence O
= .Sgt power to save g soul: "Wt
1..aeSses. p We we're so proud tina
IN could have humbled US; we were
s., -alo t5st 10 esr,hly power could havt
~, ,',.0 Us; angels Of God were aIl arounc
1, Us, hey could not overcome US;
--V Gay, perhaps at Methodist snx-
4, s5S,, Or 81 Ia presbyterian catechet
4, .s',lre, CT CT g burlal, or On horse
HI power seized us and made US get
81 snd mlde Us tremble, snd made u:
!. ~ Sad made US cry for mercy, anC
@.Su 10 wrench ourselves sway from
i, s.4Sp, but We could not. 1t flung u:
e,, alC when we srose we were as mGcl
sseo as Gourgis, the heathen, wht
u mo S prayer-meeting with a dagge,
s,,ss 1l, TO disturb the meeting and de
-. u. mt the next dsv Wss fnun(